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    ⠀ internal egg breaking

    Clarification... are they laying a gooey mess, or a soft egg encased in a membrane?
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    Hen pecking flockmates only when they're being handled?

    This is one that I haven't been able to drag up any information on. It's not something I have any reason to worry about; this is strictly curiosity. I have 4 ISA Brown hens, about 5 months old. They're great birds. One seems to have settled into the top of the pecking order (or at least acts...
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    Slightly impacted crop; treat or just monitor?

    Thanks for the response. That's useful to have an approximate timeline on when things may sour in the crop. And thanks for the mentioning the oil thing, as I had read some recommendation to feed oil-soaked soft bread. I'll do some more research before I try anything like that. As it turns out...
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    Slightly impacted crop; treat or just monitor?

    More of the same for another day. Yesterday evening her crop was a bit larger than her flockmates', but nothing too bad, and the firmness seemed to be more or less gone. Didn't know whether that was good (mass broken up), bad (going sour), or neither, so I left her for another night. This...
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    Slightly impacted crop; treat or just monitor?

    One of my hens (Isa Brown, 5 months, just started laying this week) appears to have a partly impacted crop. I'm new to this... this is my first batch of chickens (4). I've been checking their crops occasionally in the mornings, and yesterday I noticed that this particular hen had a small...
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